What Men Want

What Men Want

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Q: How does a thirty-five-year-old newspaper reporter with a vanilla-sounding name like Jenny George know so much about men?A: She doesn't.

When her live-in boyfriend made a relationship trade-in (for the lingerie model starring in the ad campaign Jenny created) she realized she knew nothing about men. But Jenny is about to be clued in. Assigned to the Caribbean to write an exposé on a womanizing Hollywood movie tycoon, she's pitted against the tough-talking journalist and bane of her existence, Slaid Warren. Slaid takes issue with Jenny's quest to be the best and sets out to show her 1) There's more to life than just work; 2) They're stronger when they work as a team and not at cross-purposes and 3) He really does live up to all his hype. Armed with these new insights--and a killer tan--Jenny suddenly couldn't care less about what men want. Instead, she's launching her own plan that's guaranteed to give her exactly what she needs....

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Deborah Blumenthal's Bio

Ever since she bought her first lipstick at age 10 (fluorescent magenta), Fat Chance author Deborah Blumenthal has been researching how our looks affect who we are. She has written extensively for the New York Times as well as many national women's magazines on beauty and health and has worked in hospitals as a nutritionist.

Blumenthal, a lifelong New Yorker, recently moved to Houston, Texas, with her daughter, Sophie, Molly, their adopted lab/beagle who has a weight issue, and her husband, Ralph, who became the New York Times Houston bureau chief.

Despite her background in health, Blumenthal can't resist occasional stops for barbecue ("The brisket here is the best!"). She has yet to calculate how many hours it would take on the treadmill or cross trainer to exercise off half a pound of lean mesquite-flavored brisket with potato salad, but really, WHO CARES? Her other Texas obsession is cowboy boots, particularly the intricately patterned and unaffordable kind decorated with hot chili peppers or prickly pear cactus.

Fat Chance is her debut novel for Red Dress Ink. She recently completed her second novel, What Men Want, to be published by RDI in March 2006.